ED Noor: Above: Water collection then and now. A man collects water from a small container; behind him the former (newly built) water system for his area lies in ruins. Gaza stat: In Gaza there are 1.8 M Palestinians of which 1.4 are homeless.

The extension of Israel’s broader policy towards all Palestinians.

This policy is guided by two principles:

To obtain the maximum amount of Palestinian land with the minimum number of Palestinian people; and

To concentrate a maximum number of Palestinians onto a minimum amount of land.

JERUSALEM POST – The true existential threat to Israel is not a belligerent enemy such as Iran, but rather domestic policies that have dragged the Jewish state toward an untenable future, former prime minister Ehud Barak said on CNN.

SPUTNIK NEWS – All inputs and outputs to the Incirlik Air Base located in Adana have been closed as Turkish Minister of European Affairs cautions that it is just a “safety inspection” while local newspapers speculate that a second coup attempt may be underway.

“This is an ugly and outrageous demonstration of Jew hatred. This is not a university – it is a hatred factory. One would think that in Germany of all places people would understand the pernicious nature of hatred and racism under a pseudo academic guise”, Emmanuel Nahshon, the foreign ministry’s spokesman, wrote The Jerusalem Post by email on Thursday.

While they would rather die than serve one day in the armies of their host countries.

JERUSALEM POST – The largest number of foreign volunteers to the IDF have come, for the second year in a row, from France, the Defense Ministry announced on Wednesday. French citizens will comprise 45 percent of the total foreign volunteers to the IDF in 2016, compared to 29% from the US and 5% from the UK.

I 24 NEWS – A high school teacher in France is under investigation from the Education Ministry after posting anti-Semitic statements on Facebook, the French weekly Le Canard Enchainé on reported Wednesday.